Sunday, January 22, 2017

A reputed mobster from Tottenville who's got two federal prison
stints under this belt, will add a New York state sentence to that
tally, after admitting Thursday he badly slashed another man with a glass 14 months ago in a Richmond Valley sushi lounge.
Peter Lovaglio, 55, pleaded guilty in state Supreme Court, St.
George, to first-degree assault. It was the top charge against the
alleged member of the Bonanno crime family, stemming from the Nov. 1,
2015 attack inside Takayama Sushi Lounge on Page Avenue.
The defendant, who goes by the moniker "Pug," struck the owner of the
upscale restaurant in the face with a cocktail glass around 2:30 a.m.,
cutting his cheek and left eye, a law enforcement source said.
The 52-year-old victim was taken to Staten Island University
Hospital, Ocean Breeze, where he underwent several surgeries on his face
and severely-damaged eye.
An NYPD spokeswoman could not say what may have prompted the assault; however, DNAinfo New York reported that Lovaglio had gotten into an argument with someone at the restaurant earlier in the evening.
In exchange for his plea, Lovaglio's sentence will be capped at eight
years in prison. He could get less time, and his lawyer Patrick V.
Parrotta is expected to seek a sentence as low as five years.
Lovaglio will also be sentenced on March 10 to five years' post-release supervision.
The defendant, who was garbed in gray hooded sweatshirt and gray
sweatpants, did not make a statement beyond admitting guilt and
responding "Yes" and "No" to Justice William E. Garnett's questions.
Prosecutors told the court the plea offer had been discussed with the victim.
Parrotta declined comment outside court.
Lovaglio, meanwhile, has a case pending in Criminal Court.
It pertains to an early-morning arrest in Mariners Harbor on Aug 20
of last year, in which he's accused of misdemeanor counts of aggravated
driving without a license and criminal weapon possession.
Lovaglio has served two prior federal prison sentences.
In 2002, he pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities
fraud and was sentenced to 41 months behind bars and ordered to pay
restitution of more than $700,000, according to Advance reports and
online federal court records.
In 2006, he was sentenced in an unrelated case in Brooklyn federal
court to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to collecting credit
by extortion, those records show.